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Each snowman nets you 500xp but they're a pain to find so not really a great source of xp. However, Esamir is currently full of rookie pilots and oblivious one person harassers. Welcome to the new meta: hunting the snowman hunters!

Well, I don't need to search anymore, my first and only snowman was golden, netted me 8k xp due to TR overpop. Also, I found mossie hunting with wisjer was more fun than driving around for some crappy snowmen.

So.. the Pounders are better then the Comets now.
Bigger Splash, biger magazine size and 2 shots (2 * 2) to kill.
Haha, the TR did need to get something OP didnt they ?
Ah, yeah. They also take out a Max in about 4 volley.
Ill put all my certs into flak armour to defend against the incomming pounder spam.

Well, as I feared the reduced lockon range is a mayor annoyance and makes the mobile AA rocket launcher much less useful, the 1s lockon time is quite useless still when being rocketpopped in the spawn room.

EDIT: This might just be a bug, but do you guys have noticed a reduction in available spawnpoints? Often I can only spawn back at the warpgate or many territories back, and not any adjacent territories if the one im in is lost.

I actually had quiet a blast yesterday using my Nemesis. Haven't shot down so many Mossies in a long time. But the problem will be that Mossies will simply adapt and rocketpod from greater distance. Also it seemed like pilots were misjudging the situation quiet often and did not bring flares which are really mandatory now if you plan to fly close to the ground.

And yes, had that too. The spawn system seems to be changes, if not bugged. Getting from one part of the map to another is much more troublesome now. I actually reverted to using my Scythe taxi which I haven't used in a long time now because redeploying was actually useful since the changes.

Alright, some of the problems with the new AA launcher, I've been playing a lot with it in the past 2 weeks, and this is what I have noticed since the change.

Flares, still 100% effective. Alas this means that any semi competent pilot will never get hit unless they put themselves in a bad spot. Most of them do hit n runs from behind cover now, with the missle tracking worsened this means that hitting them is very difficult. The increased lockon range means also that they happily fire missles from max lock-on time and just pop away before you can get a solid lock, and even if you do they can either flare or happily hide behind any object found.

Changing the tracking isnt bad, because a missle following your flight path is very powerful, I will admit that. But having 100% effective flares and the worst choice for a flight path(direct pursuit) doesnt quite work. The reduced lock-on time for short range is hardly noticeable and I have not found it to be of any advantage.

So.. the Pounders are better then the Comets now.
Bigger Splash, biger magazine size and 2 shots (2 * 2) to kill.
Haha, the TR did need to get something OP didnt they ?
Ah, yeah. They also take out a Max in about 4 volley.
Ill put all my certs into flak armour to defend against the incomming pounder spam.